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The week in theatre: The Great Middlemarch Mystery; The 47th; For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide…

A site-specific quest gets to the heart of George Eliot’s novel; Mike Bartlett makes a Shakespearean tragedy of Trump; and six young black men find full expression in Ryan Calais Cameron’s eloquent new play

The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2022

Sad! Is Donald Trump just too boring for a grand Shakespearean makeover?

Bertie Carvel is brilliant in The 47th, Mike Bartlett’s ingenious play about the former US president, but the real parallel is not with the Bard’s kings but his hollow braggarts

The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2022

The 47th, Old Vic review: A hideously transformative turn from Bertie Carvel as Trump

Mike Bartlett’s blank-verse drama about Trump running for president (again) is eloquent and clever, but has surprisingly little to say

Evening Standard · Apr 11, 2022

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The 47th review – Bertie Carvel is devilishly good but this Trumpian satire feels too soon

Mike Bartlett’s script turns US politics into Shakepearean comedy but falls oddly flat despite magnetising performances

The Guardian - UK · Apr 10, 2022

Lydia Wilson: ‘People slightly take the brakes off their misogyny when they talk about Ivanka Trump’

Eight years after playing Kate Middleton in a ‘future history’ play, the British actor is now playing Donald Trump’s ‘ambiguous’ daughter Ivanka in another. She speaks to Isobel Lewis about offensive casting, disgusted audiences, and why theatre actors need to get their hands dirty

The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2022

‘I get a chill’: Bertie Carvel on exploring the human side of Donald Trump

Of all the baddies Carvel has portrayed on stage and screen, this may be his most challenging yet. He reveals what lies beneath the bombast of The Donald

The Guardian - UK · Mar 26, 2022

‘Shakespearean’ Donald Trump to be subject of play in blank verse

The 47th by Mike Bartlett stars Bertie Carvel as the ex-president making attempt to regain the White House

The Guardian - UK · Feb 1, 2022

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Bertie Carvel to play Donald Trump in US election play

Bertie Carvel will play Donald Trump on stage in a new play set around the 2024 US election.

Evening Standard · Feb 1, 2022

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